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So it's been a couple of weeks and I am finally getting around to posting about this!  We took a pretty spur-of-the-moment Memorial Day weekend trip to Nauvoo when some people in our ward offered up some cheap lodging that offset the price of gas – and it was wonderful.  We were able to stay in a modified pioneer house in between the boot shop and the print shop on Main Street in old Nauvoo – making it possible to pack up the kids in the jogger and baby bjorn and walk to everything except Carthage.  Except for some rain the morning we arrived, we were blessed with great weather – not the 85* in the forecast (Emma wore the same not-matching jacket I threw in last-minute with every outfit, and I ended up buying Nate a sweatshirt at Wal-mart while we were there because he hadn't packed a jacket) but it was great.  It really is a "beautiful city" like it's name – and it was neat to be there and feel a little closer to the sacrifices the early church members made.  It is one of those family vacations that makes me smile just thinking about it.  Everything except the bugs in the house.  (it's a long story… at least they were only gnats, and they were dead, and there was a vaccum.)  I put a photo album of our pics from the trip on the sidebar (none of the bugs… but the first one is a view from the front porch of the house where we stayed – you could see the temple sitting there!)